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merit badge 2
october
14,
2007 - may
14 ,
2008
opening
reception:
sunday,
october
21,
2007,
1pm - 4pm
curator
Jason
Middlebrook
contact Exhibition Director
Lynn Stein
845.358.0877, lynnstein@aol.com
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merit
badge 2 curated by artist Jason
Middlebrook features outdoor site-specific installations
that draw inspiration from boy and girl scout badges.
Artists featured
include: Jude Tallichet, Letha Wilson, Jean Shin &
Brian Ripel, Julian LaVerdiere, Type A, Hector Ducci, Susan
Magnus, Hyungsub Shin, Yunhee Min, David Middlebrook, and
William Stone.
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Jude
Tallichet
Undercover
Ziggy
Light Roof
Jude
Tallichet has exhibited her work both nationally
and internationally. She has received several
awards, including the NYFA Award in Sculpture,
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, and an Individual
Artist Fellowship in Sculpture from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Jude
Tallichet website >
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Type
A
Stand
(fall)
Type
A is a New York-based collaborative team consisting
of Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. Their work explores
male bonding and the demands that society puts on
men. Their work points out everything from the serious
to the more humorous aspects of male competition through
mostly video and photography work. Type A has exhibited
extensively around the world, including such institutions
as California State University, Luckman Fine Art Complex
(Los Angeles), Art in General (New York), Walker Art
Center (Minneapolis), Centrum Beeldende Kunst (Rotterdam),
Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City), Contemporary Art
Center (New Orleans), Institute of Contemporary Art
(Palm Beach), and the UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles),
in addition to several galleries.
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Jean
Shin and
Brian Ripel
Stepping
Stones
(Pots & Pans)
Artist
Jean Shin and architect Brian Ripel have worked collaboratively
for many years. Recent projects have included installations
at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, The Eric Dupont
Gallery in Paris, Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn
and an architectural competition for the redesign
of Art in General's art space in New York City.
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Julian
LaVerdiere
"Did
you hear the one about the Turks-Head bound by a Highwayman's
Hitch to the Monkeys Fist?"
Julian
LaVerdiere uses a wide variety of symbols, signs,
and themes from the past and present to draws attention
to important moments and events that serve as historic
harbingers of coming change. In 2001 and 2002 he worked
with fellow-artist Paul Myoda, three architects, Creative
Time and the Municipal Arts Society to create "Tribute
I Light" the temporary light memorial to the victims
of September 11, 2001. LaVerdiere's work is included
in the permanent collections of P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center/ Museum of Modern Art, New York and the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.
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Hector
Ducci
The
Last American
White Oak
Hector Ducci was born in Baltimore in 1975. He studied
art at Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA. Building
barns, furniture and sculpture out of wood, most of
the time Ducci reclaims or recycles from older buildings.
He is interested in the process of building, and how
it reflects the relationship between men/women, the
earth we inhabit, and how we inhabit it. He believes
that "the built environment reveals the level of consciousness
of the times." Ducci lives and works in Brooklyn,
NY, and has shown his work at Artist Space Gallery
in New York, and Exit Art Gallery, NYC.
Hector
Ducci website >
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David
Middlebrook
The
Sky is Falling
David
Middlebrook is a California-based sculptor who
specializes in site-specific work, private and
public commissions, and smaller sculptural elements.
He works with a broad range of stone, marble,
ceramic and bronze mediums in dimensions ranging
from 50 lbs. to 50 tons. Middlebrook creates
art that connects people with their cultures.
He has more than 35 commissioned pieces to his
credit.
David
Middlebrook website >
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Letha
Wilson
Always
Be Prepared (Gallery Lean-To)
Letha
Wilson artwork explores the boundaries between two-dimensional
space and three-dimensional forms. She has received
many awards such as the Artist in the Marketplace
program, Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Hunter College
Exchange Scholarship; Orlin Prize, Honors Thesis Project
"Artspace: Art Beyond Academia"; and the Augusta Hazard
Painting Award, Syracuse University Painting Dept.
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Hyungsub
Shin
Uprooted
Hyungsub
Shin received his BFA from Hong-Ik University, Seoul,
Korea and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts,
NY. He has shown solo exhibits at Alpan Gallery, NY;
IM N IL Gallery, NY; Washington Square Windows, NY;
and BODA Gallery, Seoul, Korea. He has also shown
work in countless group exhibits. He is an installation
and sculpture artist who incorporates found objects
and mechanical elements.
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William
Stone
Wood
Scape
William
Stone has shown his work both nationally and internationally,
and has been included in recent solo exhibitions at
sites such as the James Fuentes Gallery, NY; and the
Art Moving Gallery, NYC. Stone's recent group exhibitions
were shown at Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece; Archivo
Emily Harvey, Venice, Italy; and the Deborah Colton
Gallery, Houston, Texas.
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Yunhee
Min
Swell Ground
Born
in Seoul, Korea, Yunhee Min creates work by
juxtaposing color and form in disarming and
fascinating ways. Her works include painting,
sculpture, installation, architecture and design.
Yunhee
Min website >
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Susan
Magnus
Untitled,
2007
Susan
Magnus is the recipient of a Visual Arts Award
from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation,
a Regional Fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts, and a Jack and Gertrude Murphy
Fine Arts Fellowship from the San Francisco
Foundation. Her work is held in many public
and private collections, including the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California,
the Microsoft Corporation and the Oracle Corporation.
A long time resident of the San Francisco Bay
Area, she now lives and works in Beacon, NY.
Susan
Magnus website >
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This
program is made possible, in part, with funds from the New
York State Council on the Arts, a public agency. RoCA gratefully
acknowledges support from the Arts Fund for Rockland, a project
of the Arts Council of Rockland, as well as the County of
Rockland, the Town of Clarkstown, the Consulate General of
Brazil, Center Members and Donors.
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